Besides washing already clean pots and pans in a closed soup kitchen, another way Lyin Paul Ryan tries to convince the willfully-ignorant that he cares about the poor is by pretending he understands given that his Irish ancestors fled Ireland to escape the potato famine... ...but in true, sociopathic, form... Ryan is confident that his ignorant followers are unaware that his assertions the poor are to blame for the economic environment that creates poverty and the best thing to do to break them out of the culture of dependency is to cut social safety net programs to teach them the dignity of work are the EXACT same excuses the British Tories used when they stood by and watched millions of Ryans Irish ancestors starve rather than throw them a readily-available lifeline. England’s man in charge of easing the famine, Sir Charles Trevelyan, declared, “Dependence on charity is not to be made an agreeable mode of life.” SOUND FAMILIAR? The Irish historian John Kelly, who wrote a book on the great famine, was the first to pick up on these echoes of the past during the 2012 presidential campaign. Ryan’s high-profile economic philosophy, he wrote then, is the very same one that hurt, not helped, his forebears during the famine — and hurt them badly. What was a tired and untrue trope back then is a tired and untrue trope now. What was a distortion of human nature back then is a distortion now. And what was a misread of history then is a misread now. Ryan boasts of the Gaelic half of his ancestry, on his father’s side. I come from Irish peasants who came over during the potato famine, he said last year during a forum on immigration. BUT with a head still stuffed with college-boy mush from Ayn Rand, he apparently never did any reading about the times that prompted his ancestors to sail away from the suffering sod. Centuries of British rule that attempted to strip the Irish of their language, their religion and their land had produced a wretched peasant class, subsisting on potatoes. When blight wiped out the potatoes, at least a million Irish died — one in eight people. The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine, wrote the fiery essayist John Mitchel, whose words bought him a ticket to the penal colony of Tasmania. What infuriated Mitchel was that the Irish were starving to death at the very time that rich stores of grain and fat livestock owned by absentee landlords were being shipped out of the country. The food was produced by Irish hands on Irish lands but would not go into Irish mouths, for fear that such charity would upset the free market, and make people lazy.... Ryan’s running mate in 2012, Mitt Romney, made the Tory case with his infamous remark that 47 percent of Americans are moochers, dependent upon government. Part of that dependence, he said, extended to people “who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.” Food — the gall! You can’t make these kinds of heartless remarks unless you think the poor deserve their fate — that they have a character flaw, born of public assistance. And there hovers another awful haunt of Irish history. In 2012, Ryan said that the network of programs for the American poor made people not want to work... You never hear Ryan make character judgments about generations of wealthy who live off their inheritance, or farmers who get paid not to grow anything. Nor, for that matter, does he target plutocrats like Romney who might be lulled into not taking risks because they pay an absurdly low tax rate simply by moving money around. Dependency is all one-way. This is a MUST READ and SHARE article proving yet again that CONServatism is appalling, abhorrent and harmful to society and CONS are truly trying to drag us back to times best left in the dung heap of history.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:03:36 +0000
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